[
US
/ˈməðɝ/
]
NOUN
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a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
the mother of three children - a term of address for an elderly woman
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a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
necessity is the mother of invention - a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for a mother superior
VERB
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make (offspring) by reproduction
Abraham begot Isaac
John fathered four daughters -
care for like a mother
She fusses over her husband
How To Use mother In A Sentence
- There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- All the while their mother snorted, shuffled about a bit and then went back to sleep. The Sun
- His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
- Her mother has written to him explaining the situation but has not heard back.
- And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
- Or did her pushy mother and absent father turn her life into a sordid soap opera? Times, Sunday Times
- The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
- The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
